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A Raft (2)
JULY 23RD. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
A raft with two boys on board was drifting seawards., but one of the boys succeeded in swimming ashore. The other was drowned, and his body recovered by a boat. - Rewards, £10 11s....
A Canvas Canoe
JULY 17TH. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO.
LOUTH. Three young men had put to sea in a canvas canoe, but lost their lives before the life-boat could reach them. - Rewards, £10 12s. 6d..
Books
The Little Ships of Dunkirk by Christian Brann, published by Collectors' Books at £24.50 ISBN 0 946604 02 9 In late May and early June 1939 the name of a small Flanders port became a household word, a name which even now, almost...
Category: Articles
Roving Commission: the Rnli Mobile Training Unit Brings Up-To-The-Minute Radio Information to Lifeboat Crews
A WINTER EVENING. Cloud building up.
The south-west wind coming in over the Bristol Channel, moderate to fresh, rising . . .
'All lifeboats—Barry Coastguard— this is Barry Dock number one lifeboat —/...
Category: Articles
Ugunjeema
Two days later—Sunday—a violent northerly gale, with blinding showers of snow and sleet prevailed, and at about 3 P.M. a barque was observed off Skate- raw, displaying signals of distress. The Life-boat William Arthur Milhvard was at...
Travelscope
7 DAYS departing: May & June 2007 Sailing from Harwich - No Flying Four ports of call; Bergen, Flam, Gudvangen & Rosendal 6 DAY Itineraries also available from Hull & Rosyth from £349 From dramatic fjord scenery and rolling...
Category: Advertisement
Emperor of the French—His Rewards to British Seamen for Saving Life
COUNT WALEWSKI, late French Ambassador at the Court of St. James's, has obligingly forwarded to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution the following list of British seamen, to whom the Emperor of the French has, by imperial decrees,...
Category: Medals
Mary Ann
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 9.5 on the night of the 23rd of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a message re- received from Sandwich that a fishing boat was drifting on a lee shore a mile north of Guildford Hotel. Five minutes later,...
Fishing Cobles (1)
SEVEN AT SEA Whitby, Yorkshire. At 1.30 p.m. on 2oth November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that seven fishing cobles were at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. There was a strong gale from the north with a rough...
Pulborough
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.34 on the evening of the 10th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Pulborough of London had a sick man on board in Yarmouth Roads. The life-boat...